Cloud
Aparavi adds direct-to-cloud data transfer and data classification and search enhancements to Active Archive platform
Aparavi, which came out of stealth a year ago, plays in the multi-cloud data management space.
data management
Cloud
Dell EMC upgrades Isilon, Unity elements of storage portfolio
Dell EMC unveils a new Isilon scale-out system, the F810, which has built in data compression capabilities. They have also enhanced their Unity platform with the OE 4.5 software release.
Cloud
Field sales alignment brings WDC into Komprise Series C Funding round as strategic investor
Komprise, which sells entirely through the channel, has been growing their footprint by 600 per cent in existing customers, and last year doubled their revenues every quarter.
Backup
SwiftStack sees big pluses in partnering with Veeam around new Veeam Cloud Tier
The SwiftStack integration, their first ever with Veeam, lets local data on Veeam servers be automatically moved between performance and capacity tiers created in SwiftStack, defined by an organization’s management and retention policies.
Big Data
New Pentaho-Hitachi Content Platform integration strengthens, simplifies Pentaho use of unstructured data
The new Pentaho 8.2 release also makes hybrid cloud data management easier, and adds new and updated ecosystem support, including their first with the Jupyter Notebook open-source web application.
Backup
Rubrik enhances hybrid cloud capabilities with Andes 5.0 platform release
Enhancements in Rubrik’s latest release include certification for SAP HANA, instant recovery capabilities for Oracle database instant recovery and improved Microsoft Office 365 protection on the Rubrik Polaris SaaS platform.
Storage
Komprise adds full file integrity to data access from any tier across on-prem and cloud
In addition to expanding their capability for the customer to access file data in object clouds, Komprise announced support for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
Big Data
SwiftStack expands market presence with new partnership with Splunk around Splunk SmartStore
SwiftStack sees their new partnership with Spunk around the new SmartStore feature within the Splunk Enterprise platform as offering enormous new opportunities for SwiftStack, in making them attractive to customers who would never have considered them before.
Big Data
Splunk enhances analytics scalability, allows separate scaling of compute and storage and enables LOB users in new platform release
Splunk’s announcements at the outset of their Spunk .conf18 event include significant new updates of their Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud platforms
Backup
Completely revamped next-gen StoreOnce highlights HPE data protection refresh
The new version of HPE’s StoreOnce hybrid backup appliance remakes pretty much everything, from new hardware, to a new software stack and GUI, to significant changes to the go-to-market.
Cloud
Scality adds commercial version and new features to Zenko multi-cloud data controller in 1.0 release
The new features include the addition of one-to-many replication capability to the Zenko data workflow engine, something that is valuable to the majority of cloud users who have more than one cloud.
Backup
Imanis Data adds more machine learning functionality to Hadoop and NOSQL-focused Data Management Platform
Key enhancements include a new RPO-driven backup capability and the first automated Any-Point-In-Time Recovery capability for NoSQL databases.
Backup
Veeam, Cisco expand relationship around Cisco HyperFlex to secondary side
Cisco and Veeam partnered around HyperFlex over a year ago around a direct snapshot integration for HyperFlex primary storage. Now they are extending that partnership with a new integration on the secondary side that leverages enhancements made in HyperFlex 3.0.
Storage
StorageCraft targets midmarket with converged OneXafe platform for both primary and secondary storage
StorageCraft is entering a market segment where other companies already play, although StorageCraft does have some interesting points of technology differentiation. The big difference though is that other vendors in this space are focused on the enterprise, while StorageCraft OneXafe is aimed at – and priced for – the midmarket.
Backup
Imanis Data upgrades machine learning Data Management Platform as it expands channel strategy
Imanis Data is looking for selected channel partners who want to emphasize data management rather than just backup, and who get that this requires selling to the C-suite.
Backup
Veeam to see major benefits from upgrade in strategic relationship with HPE
Veeam has been promoted to HPE’s top partner category, Global Supply Chain, and named a Gold Partner in the HPE Global Partner Program and an HPE Pointnext storage partner. The latter allows them to be sold as an HPE consumption service, which Veeam sees as having great potential for them.
Cloud
SwiftStack launches 1space to unlock new multi-cloud use cases
1space is also a new open source project, and is joined as new SwiftStack open source endeavours by MetaSync, which like 1space, also brings new multi-cloud technologies to the open source community.
Backup
Rubrik emphasizes new hybrid cloud capabilities with Rubrik Alta 4.2 release
New cloud native capabilities will have particular value for Rubrik channel partners, who will be able to offer customers more strategic services rather than providing tactical implementation.
Big Data
AtScale brings their Data Lake middleware to Amazon, Microsoft and Google cloud marketplaces
AtScale allows organizations to use their familiar BI tools like Tableau and Excel to process Big Data at extreme speeds. The new cloud marketplace initiative is aimed mainly at departments of enterprises.
Software
Attunity deepens SAP relationship with SAP HANA certification for enhanced Attunity Replicate
Attunity is also highlighting their new Attunity Gold Client for Data Protection for SAP environments, which is designed to satisfy the new EU GDPR ‘right to be forgotten’ compliance requirements.